List of University of California, Los Angeles people

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• Ralph Bunche – recipient of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize
• Richard F. Heck – recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Bruce Merrifield – recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Elinor Ostrom – recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Randy Schekman – recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Glenn T. Seaborg – recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• William F. Sharpe – recipient of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

  Academia, science and technology

Arts and literature

• Amy Adler – artist
• Luis Aguilar-Monsalve – writer and educator
• Sara Kathryn Arledge – artist
• Catherine Asaro – Nebula Award-winning science-fiction novelist
• Glenna Avila – artist
• James Robert Baker – novelist
• Gary Baseman – artist
• Edith Baumann – abstract artist
• Rosa Beltrán – writer, lecturer and academic
• Susan Berman – author and screenwriter
• Stan Bitters – sculptor
• Justina Blakeney – designer and author
• Slater Bradley – artist
• Kenneth Wayne Bushnell – artist and educator
• Vija Celmins – artist
• Judy Chicago – artist and educator
• Vicky A. Clark – curator
• Coleman Collins – artist
• Jennifer Dalton – artist
• Agnes de Mille – dancer and choreographer
• Jacques Ehrmann – literary theorist
• Dan Eldon – photojournalist
• Kim Gruenenfelder – author
• Warren Farrell – educator, gender equality activist and author of The Myth of Male Power
• Alyce Frank – artist
• Martin Friedman – former director of Walker Art Center
• Charles Garabedian – artist
• Kelly Grovier – poet and literary critic
• Gazzy Garcia – musician
• Sam Harris – writer
• Florence Parry Heide – author of children's literature
• Juan Felipe Herrera – professor, 21st U.S. poet laureate
• Gilah Yelin Hirsch – artist
• Diane Johnson – novelist
• Jane Jin Kaisen – artist
• Craig Kauffman – artist
• Jonathan Kellerman – Edgar Award-winning novelist and psychologist
• Annie Lapin – painter
• Mitchell Landsberg – journalist
• Gaylord Larsen – mystery writer
• Russell Leong – author and philosopher of Asian-American studies
• Linda Levi – artist
• Edward Meshekoff – artist
• Meleko Mokgosi – artist
• Ed Moses – artist
• Alexandra Nechita – painter
• John D. Nesbitt – writer and educator
• Tameka Norris – artist
• Flo Perkins – glass artist
• Raymond Pettibon – visual artist, known for creating the cover art for punk-rock band Black Flag's albums
• Jenelle Porter – art curator and author
• Jason Rhoades – artist
• Kay Ryan – poet and educator; U.S. Poet Laureate ; MacArthur Fellow
• Betye Saar – artist
• Ben Sakoguchi – artist
• Shizu Saldamando – artist
• Sarah Seager – artist
• Cindy Shih – artist
• Melissa Ann Sweat – musician and writer
• Wu Tsang – artist
• Billie Tsien – architect, Barack Obama Presidential Center
• Harry Turtledove – Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning science-fiction novelist
• Barbara Brooks Wallace – award-winning children's author, including two Edgar Awards and a William Allen White Children's Book Award
• Emma Walton Hamilton – actress, author of children's books
• Antoine Wilson – novelist
• Jan Wurm – artist
• Richard Wyatt Jr. – artist

  Film, television and theater

Athletics

Hall of Famers in major team sports

National Baseball Hall of Fame

• Jackie Robinson

  Pro Football Hall of Fame

• Bob Waterfield
• Tom Fears
• Jimmy Johnson
• Troy Aikman
• Jonathan Ogden
• Kenny Easley

  Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Golf

• John Merrick – professional golfer
• Corey Pavin – professional golfer, 1995 U.S. Open champion, 2010 Ryder Cup captain
• Tom Pernice, Jr. – professional golfer
• Monte Scheinblum – 1992 U.S. National and World Long Drive Champion
• Duffy Waldorf – professional golfer

  Gymnastics

Soccer

Tennis

• Arthur Ashe – tennis player and social activist; Wimbledon champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Jimmy Connors – tennis player ; two-time Wimbledon champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Herbert Flam – tennis player
• Zack Fleishman – professional tennis player
• Allen Fox – tennis player and coach
• Mike Franks – professional tennis player
• Justin Gimelstob – professional tennis player
• Anita Kanter – tennis player ranked in world top 10
• Steve Krulevitz – professional tennis player
• Kimberly Po – professional tennis player
• Brian Teacher – professional tennis player ; Australian Open champion; and coach
• Eliot Teltscher – professional tennis player

  Track and field

• Evelyn Ashford – Olympic track and field athlete and multiple gold medalist
• Ato Boldon – Olympic track and field athlete 1997 200 meter World Champion and four-time Olympic Sprint medalist
• Gail Devers – track and field runner; multiple Olympic gold medalist
• Danny Everett – Olympic bronze medalist in track and field
• Millard Hampton – track and field athlete, gold and silver medalist in the 1976 Montreal Olympics
• Dawn Harper – 2008 Olympics 100m Hurdles gold medalist
• Joanna Hayes – Olympic gold medalist track and field 100 m hurdles record holder
• Monique Henderson – track and field runner; Olympic gold medalist in 4 × 400 m relay
• Rafer Johnson – several-time world-record holder in the decathlon, and gold medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Florence Griffith Joyner – Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in 100 meter race
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee – track and field athlete, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the heptathlon
• Meb Keflezighi – Olympic silver medalist, NCAA championships and New York City Marathon winner
• Steve Lewis – Olympic gold medalist in track and field
• Andre Phillips – track and field athlete, 400 meter hurdle gold medalist in the 1988 Seoul Olympics
• Mike Powell – former track and field athlete, current coach and holder of the long jump world record
• Yang Chuan-kwang – former world-record holder in the decathlon, silver medalist in the decathlon in the 1960 Summer Olympics; first man to score over 9,000 points
• Kevin Young – Olympic gold medalist in track and field, current world record holder 400 meters hurdles

  Volleyball

• Karch Kiraly – volleyball player and coach; only person to win Olympic gold medals in both indoor and beach volleyball
• Holly McPeak – beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist
• Elaine Youngs – beach volleyball player and Olympic bronze medalist

  Water polo

• James Ferguson – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist,
• Natalie Golda – water polo player; Olympian
• Adam Krikorian – water polo player and coach; won 14 national titles
• Monte Nitzkowski – Olympic water polo coach and swimmer
• Jovan Vavic - former head coach of the USC men's and women's water polo teams

  Other

• Lisa Fernandez – Olympic softball gold medalist
• Brian Goodell – swimmer; nine NCAA individual championships, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder
• Tommy Kendall – race car driver and television analyst
• Michelle Kwan – world champion figure skater; record nine-time U.S. National Champion
• Ken Pavia – former sports agent, founder of MMAagents Sports Agency, and the former CEO of India's first MMA Promotion Super Fight League
• Dot Richardson – softball player, Olympic gold medalist
• Mark Schultz, 3x NCAA Champion, Olympic and world champion wrestler
• Doug Shaffer – platform diving, U.S. National champion, NCAA Diver of the Year, Head coach at UCLA, Minnesota and LSU
• Tim Thackrey – US National Team and Pan Am Games gold medalist

  Business and law

• Nancy J. Adler - Professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University
• Eugene Anderson – attorney
• Shawn Holley – member of O.J. Simpson murder case defense team
• Fred D. Anderson – former CFO of Apple Computer
• John Edward Anderson – president of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management
• Tom Anderson – founder of MySpace
• Nancy Austin – management consultant and author of The Assertive Woman
• Stephen F. Bollenbach – CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation
• Saul Brandman – garment manufacturer
• Bernard Briskin – co-founder and Chairman of Gelson's Markets
• Janice Rogers Brown – judge for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
• Vincent Bugliosi – attorney and writer
• Michael Burry – hedge fund manager
• Frieda Rapoport Caplan – Entrepreneur in Specialty Produce
• Cormac J. Carney – United States federal judge
• Phil Carter – attorney, writer, and U.S. Army adviser in Iraq
• Morgan Chu – attorney, intellectual property expert
• Marcia Clark – attorney, lead prosecutor in O.J. Simpson murder case
• Johnnie Cochran – attorney
• Lynn Compton – former judge for the California Court of Appeals
• Roger Curtis – founder of Associated Electrics
• Keith Fink – attorney
• Laurence D. Fink – CEO and Chairman of BlackRock
• Dolly Gee – U.S. District Court judge
• Bill Gross – co-founder of PIMCO; philatelist
• Vinita Gupta – first Indian-origin woman to take her company public
• Horace Hahn – assisted Justice Robert H. Jackson as an interrogator in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials
• Sam Hamadeh – co-founder, Vault.com
• John W. Henry – money manager and principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C.
• Nita Ing – chairman of Continental Engineering Corporation and Taiwan High Speed Rail
• William R. Johnson – chief executive officer, H.J. Heinz Company
• Alex Kozinski – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Ryan Lee – hedge fund manager and radio commentator
• Hardy McLain – hedge fund manager; managing partner of CVC Capital Partners
• Billy G. Mills – Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–74, Superior Court judge thereafter
• Marvin Mitchelson – attorney
• Irwin Molasky – real estate entrepreneur and early developer of Las Vegas
• Ezri Namvar – former founder and chairman of Namco Capital Group
• Dorothy W. Nelson – senior judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Michael Newdow – plaintiff in Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
• Robert C. O'Brien, United States National Security Advisor
• Michael Ovitz – Hollywood power broker and former president of the Walt Disney Company
• Robert O. Peterson – founder of the Jack in the Box restaurant chain
• Daniel Petrocelli – attorney
• Harry Pregerson – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Donald Prell – venture capitalist, author and futurist
• Subramaniam Ramadorai – chief executive officer and managing director, Tata Consultancy Services
• Jennifer Rodgers, former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and CNN legal analyst
• Nobutada Saji – chief executive officer, Suntory
• Robert Shapiro – attorney, part of defense team in O.J. Simpson murder case
• Sanford C. Sigoloff – businessman and philanthropist
• Stacey Snider – president of DreamWorks
• Ronald Sugar – chief executive officer, Northrop Grumman
• Jay Sures – co-president of United Talent Agency
• Edward Tabash – Constitutional attorney specializing in church and state issues; Board of Directors for the Center for Inquiry
• Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi – federal judge
• A. Wallace Tashima – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – founder, chairman and CEO of ILFC
• Kim McLane Wardlaw – judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Don Yee – NFL sports agent
• James Yenbamroong – space entrepreneur and founder of Mu Space

  Music

• Jenni Alpert – singer-songwriter
• Sara Bareilles – Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and pianist
• Jan Berry – singer-songwriter; member of the rock-and-roll duo Jan & Dean
• Jeff Blue – music producer for various labels; vice president of Warner California's artists-and-repertoire division
• Alison Brown – Grammy Award-winning banjo player
• John Cage – composer; student of Schoenberg
• Don Davis – film-score composer, including the science-fiction action film franchise The Matrix trilogy
• Brad Delson – guitarist; lead guitarist and founding member of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Linkin Park
• Ryan Dusick – drummer, member of the Grammy Award-winning pop-rock band Maroon 5
• Doriot Anthony Dwyer – principal flautist, Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Blake McIver Ewing − singer, pianist, actor
• John Fahey – experimental guitarist
• Jill Gibson – singer-songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor
• Greg Ginn – guitarist and singer-songwriter; guitarist of the punk-rock band Black Flag
• Kim Gordon – musician; member of the alternative-rock band Sonic Youth
• Greg Graffin – singer-songwriter; lead singer of the punk-rock band Bad Religion
• Conan Gray – singer-songwriter;youtuber
• Joshua Guerrero, operatic tenor
• Jake Heggie – opera composer, Dead Man Walking
• James Horner – Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Grammy Award-winning film-score composer
• Anthony Kiedis – singer-songwriter; lead vocalist of the alternative-rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Jim Lindberg – singer-songwriter; lead singer of the punk-rock band Pennywise
• Jon MacLennan – session musician and author of Melodic Expressions: The Art of the Line
• Mickey Madden – bass guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning pop-rock band Maroon 5
• Ron Mael – musician and songwriter; co-founder and keyboardist of the pop-rock band Sparks
• Russell Mael – singer-songwriter; co-founder and lead vocalist of the pop-rock band Sparks
• Ray Manzarek – co-founder and keyboardist of the rock band The Doors
• Maile Misajon – singer-songwriter; former member of the pop girl group Eden's Crush
• Jim Morrison – poet and singer-songwriter; co-founder and lead vocalist of rock band The Doors
• Randy Newman – composer, pianist and singer-songwriter; Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy Award-winning film-score composer
• NS Yoon-G, stage name of Christine Kim, aka Kim Yoonji – South Korean singer
• John Ondrasik – singer-songwriter; performs pop rock under the stage name Five for Fighting
• Mo Ostin – music executive, Chairman Emeritus of Warner Bros. Records
• Kira Roessler – musician and film and television dialogue editor; bass guitarist of the punk-rock band Black Flag; film and television work includes Primetime Emmy Award-winning dialogue editor for her work on the biographical television miniseries John Adams episode "Don't Tread On Me"
• Laura Roppé – singer-songwriter and writer; cancer survivor who wrote memoir Rocking the Pink: Finding Myself on the Other Side of Cancer
• Seo Jung-kwon – Korean-American rapper under the stage name Tiger JK, and leader of hip hop group Drunken Tiger
• Andy Sturmer – singer-songwriter and drummer of Jellyfish, producer for Puffy AmiYumi, composer of theme songs for Ben 10 and Teen Titans
• Susie Tallman – children's musician
• Paul Tanner – member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, inventor of the Electro-Theremin instrument
• David Tao – singer
• Brian Tyler – BAFTA-nominated film score composer, conductor and film producer; his compositions include scores for Iron Man 3, , and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
• Kamasi Washington – jazz saxophonist, composer, producer and bandleader
• John Williams – Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy Award-winning composer; conductor and pianist; compositions include scores for the space opera Star Wars film series
• La Monte Young – composer, leading figure in musical minimalism

  Politics

• Shahid Khaqan Abbasi – Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Farid Abboud – ambassador of Lebanon to United States
• Glenn M. Anderson – United States Representative from California
• Patrick Argüello – Nicaraguan-American revolutionary
• Howard Berman – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Tom Bradley – Mayor of Los Angeles
• Yvonne Braithwaite Burke – Los Angeles County Supervisor
• John Campbell – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Benjamin Cayetano – Governor of Hawaii
• Judy Chu – first Chinese-American woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress
• James C. Corman – Los Angeles City Council member; member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• J. Curtis Counts – director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
• Edmund D. Edelman – Los Angeles City Council member ; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member
• John Ehrlichman – assistant and counsel to the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration
• Elizabeth Emken – 2012 Republican U.S. Senate Candidate
• Robert C. Farrell – journalist; Los Angeles City Council member
• Dean Florez – member of the California State Senate, student body president at UCLA
• Kirsten Gillibrand – U.S. Senator from New York
• H.R. Haldeman – Chief of Staff for the Richard M. Nixon presidential administration; a key figure in the Watergate scandal
• James Day Hodgson – former United States Secretary of Labor and Ambassador to Japan
• Andrei Iancu - Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Paul Koretz – former member of the California State Assembly; Los Angeles City Council member
• Sheila Kuehl – former member of the California State Senate, California State Assembly, and current Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
• Jerry Lewis – member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations
• Calum MacDonald – former Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
• Roberto Madrazo – candidate for president of Mexico in the 2006 presidential elections
• Jim Matheson – member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Utah
• Tom McClintock – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• David McReynolds – activist and socialist political candidate
• Lloyd Monserratt – California political and community leader
• Bill Morrow – member of the California State Senate
• Gordon L. Park – former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives
• Dennis Ross – U.S. diplomat to the Middle East
• Edward R. Roybal – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Brad Sherman – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Helen Singleton – civil rights activist and Freedom Rider
• William French Smith – former United States Attorney General
• Todd Spitzer – member of the California State Assembly
• William R. Steiger – director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Global Health Affairs in the George W. Bush administration
• Ted Stevens – former senator of Alaska and alumnus to Delta Kappa Epsilon
• Rick Tuttle – Freedom Rider and Los Angeles City Controller
• Peggy Stevenson – Los Angeles City Council member
• Antonio Villaraigosa – Mayor of Los Angeles; former Speaker of the California Assembly
• Joel Wachs – Los Angeles City Council member ; president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City
• Mimi Walters – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Diane Watson – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Henry Waxman – member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Shirley Weber – member of the California State Assembly
• Helena Wong – member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Zev Yaroslavsky – Los Angeles City Council member; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member
• Ehsan Zaffar – author; faculty; senior advisor on civil right,– U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security

  Miscellaneous

• Rodney Alcala – convicted rapist and serial killer active from 1968 to 1979, aka the "Dating Game Killer" for his successful appearance on The Dating Game
• Gustavo Arellano – OC Weekly writer and author of the "¡Ask a Mexican!" column
• Jules Asner – model and television personality
• Tony Auth – Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist
• Rudi Bakhtiar – national news anchor
• Tony Blankley – commentator on The McLaughlin Group
• Joseph Blatchford – third Director of the United States Peace Corps
• Barbara Branden – author, Who is Ayn Rand?
• Nathaniel Branden – psychologist, author, Who is Ayn Rand?, Psychology of Self-Esteem and
• Judge Joe Brown – television judge
• Linda Burhansstipanov – Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma member, public health educator and researcher focused on Native American cancer care and support
• William George Carr – Executive Secretary of the National Education Association, 1952–1967
• Carlos Castaneda – anthropologist and writer
• Paul Colichman – founder of Here! cable TV network
• Allen Cunningham – professional poker player
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino – World War II radio propagandist, "Tokyo Rose"
• Giada De Laurentiis – Food Network Chef
• Clifford B. Drake - Marine Corps Major general
• Chris "Jesus" Ferguson – World Series of Poker main event winner and poker professional
• Harvey J. Fields – Reform rabbi.
• Alice Taylor Gafford – artist
• Jonathan Gold – Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic
• Josh E. Gross – publisher of Beverly Hills Weekly
• Todd Harris – Republican strategist on Hardball with Chris Matthews
• Frank B. James – U.S. Air Force general
• Arthur Janov – psychologist, inventor of primal therapy
• Stephen Francis Jones – American architect known for high-end restaurant designs
• Kang Dong-suk – yachtsman, first Korean solo circumnavigator
• Jill Kinmont – educator, quadriplegic, alpine ski racer in the 1950s
• Ida B. Kinney – civil rights activist
• Ezra Klein – blogger; journalist, Vox.com
• Ralph Lazo – civil rights activist, only known non-spouse and non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp
• Flora Lewis – journalist with The New York Times
• Carol Lin – national news anchor
• Laura Ling – journalist with Current TV, notable for her detainment in North Korea
• Bridget Marquardt – co-star of The Girls Next Door
• Nana Meriwether – Miss Maryland USA 2012, Miss USA 2012
• Donn Moomaw – Presbyterian minister, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Zoltan Pali – architect
• Steve Parode – U. S. Navy Rear Admiral
• William R. Peers – U.S. Army Lt. General best known for leading the army's investigation of the My Lai incident
• Kelly Perdew – winner of The Apprentice
• Brian R. Price – author, editor, publisher, martial-arts instructor of the Italian school of swordsmanship, reconstructive armorer, and Dissertation Fellow in History at the University of North Texas
• Lila Rose – activist and president of Live Action
• Steve Sailer – paleoconservative blogger and journalist
• James M. Seely – U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy from December 18, 1988 to January 1990
• Marcus Stern – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Alan S. Thompson – retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral
• Daniel Thompson – inventor of the automatic bagel maker and the folding ping pong table
• Princess Ubol Ratana of Thailand
• Francis B. Wai – Medal of Honor recipient
• J. Warner Wallace – homicide detective and Christian apologist
• Stephen Worth – director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project
• Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol of Thailand

  Notable faculty

Nobel laureates

• Paul D. Boyer – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Donald Cram – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Louis J. Ignarro – professor of molecular and medical pharmacology; recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Willard Libby – professor of chemistry; recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Bertrand Russell – mathematician and philosopher; recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Julian Schwinger – professor of physics; recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Lloyd Shapley – professor of economics; recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics

  Business

• Mark A.R. Kleiman – professor of public policy, noted expert on crime and drug policy
• William Ouchi – professor of management and best-selling author

  Law

Medicine

• Michael S. Gottlieb – first physician to diagnose AIDS
• David Ho – AIDS researcher
• Howard Judd – menopause expert and medical researcher
• Martha Kirkpatrick – clinical professor of psychiatry
• Kimberly J. Lee – reconstructive surgeon
• Linda Liau – W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery
• Courtney Lyder - expert in gerontology; first black dean of the UCLA School of Nursing
• No-Hee Park, DMD, PhD – Dean, UCLA School of Dentistry and notable researcher of oral cancer and aging research
• Patrick Soon-Shiong – executive director, UCLA Wireless Health Institute

  Politics

• Michael Dukakis – professor of policy studies, former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 presidential candidate
• Al Gore – visiting professor, 45th Vice President of the United States
• Larry Pressler – teacher and visiting fellow, former Senator from South Dakota

  Science and technology

• George O. Abell – professor of astronomy
• Asad Ali Abidi – professor of electrical engineering; pioneer of CMOS RF circuits; member of the National Academy of Engineering
• M. C. Frank Chang – professor of electrical engineering; member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Alonzo Church – known for the lambda calculus used in computing
• Steven Clarke – professor of chemistry and biochemistry; pioneer in protein repair in aging
• Vijay K. Dhir – dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
• François Diederich – professor of chemistry
• David Eisenberg – professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of biological chemistry; Director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
• Sergio Ferrara – professor of physics; co-discovered supergravity in 1976
• Rajit Gadh – professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; founder and director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center and Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium
• William Gelbart – professor of chemistry and biochemistry
• Andrea Ghez – professor of astronomy; expert in the galactic center and adaptive optics; Crafoord Prize recipient
• Sheila Greibach – professor of computer science, known for the Greibach normal form
• A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid, physicist; member, Nobel Committee for Physics
• Kendall Houk – professor of chemistry
• Tatsuo Itoh – professor of electrical engineering; member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Michael E. Jung – professor of chemistry
• Richard Kaner – professor of chemistry
• Alan Kay – professor of computer science; Turing Award laureate
• Margaret Kivelson – professor of space physics; expert in planetary magnetospheres; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Leonard Kleinrock – professor of computer science; Internet pioneer; recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science
• William Scott Klug – associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; killed in the 2016 UCLA shooting
• Raphael David Levine – professor of chemistry
• Tung Hua Lin – professor of civil and environmental engineering; designer of China's first twin-engine aircraft
• Seymour Lubetzky – professor of library and information science
• Donald A. Martin – professor of mathematics and philosophy
• Mildred Esther Mathias – professor of botany, eponym of the campus' Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
• William V. Mayer – professor of zoology
• Carlo Montemagno – Associate Director, California Nanosystems Institute; Founding Department Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Carol and Roy Doumani Professor of Biomedical Engineering ; Father of Bionanotechnology
• Henry John Orchard – professor of electrical engineering; pioneer of the field of filter design
• Mangalore Anantha Pai – power engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Stott Parker - Professor of computer science
• Judea Pearl – professor of computer science; pioneer of Bayesian networks and the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence; Turing Award laureate
• Roberto Peccei – professor of physics; former dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences; Sakurai Prize recipient
• Theodore M. Porter – professor of history of science
• Abraham Robinson – professor of mathematics and philosophy
• Joseph Rudnick – professor of physics; former dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences
• Lloyd Shapley – professor of mathematics; known for the Shapley value in game theory
• Elizabeth Stern – professor of epidemiology
• Ernst G. Straus – professor of mathematics
• Terence Tao – professor of mathematics; Fields Medalist in 2006; Crafoord Prize recipient
• Edward Wright – professor of astronomy; expert in cosmology and infrared astronomy; member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Jeffrey Zink – professor of chemistry and biochemistry

  Social science, arts and humanities

• Rogers Albritton – late professor of philosophy
• Joyce Appleby – U.S. historian; specialist in intellectual history and the legacy of liberalism
• Ann Bergren – professor of Greek Literature, winner in 1988 of the University's Distinguished Teaching Award.
• William Bodiford – professor of Japanese and Buddhist studies
• Tyler Burge, Professor, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Kenny Burrell – professor of jazz studies; jazz guitarist and composer
• Rudolf Carnap – late professor of the philosophy of language
• Alonzo Church – pioneer in the philosophy of language and computer science
• James Smoot Coleman – Africanist; founded the UCLA African Studies Center
• Brian Copenhaver – emeritus historian of philosophy
• Denis Cosgrove – Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography
• Angela Davis – assistant professor of philosophy, fired in 1969 by the Board of Regents and California Governor Ronald Reagan for her membership in the Communist Party
• Jared Diamond – professor of geography and physiology, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
• Keith Donnellan – late professor of philosophy
• Frederick Erickson – professor emeritus of educational anthropology
• Kit Fine – former professor of philosophy
• Philippa Foot – late professor of philosophy
• Steven Forness – Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
• Andrea Fraser – professor of interdisciplinary studio
• Saul Friedländer – European historian; specialist in Holocaust studies
• Lowell Gallagher – literary theorist
• James Gimzewski – physicist and nanotechnology pioneer
• Carlo Ginzburg – European historian; pioneer of microhistory
• Juan Gómez-Quiñones – U.S. historian; specialist in Chicano history
• Lev Hakak – Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at UCLA
• N. Katherine Hayles – literary critic
• Barbara Herman – professor of philosophy
• Thomas Hines – architectural historian; professor emeritus
• James N. Hill – processualist archaeologist
• Darnell Hunt – Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Dean of Social Sciences
• Neil Peter Jampolis – professor of theater Design; Tony Award Winning Designer; Director and Designer of Theater, Dance, and Opera
• Donald Kalish – late professor of philosophy
• Abraham Kaplan – late professor of philosophy
• David Kaplan – professor of the philosophy of language
• Edmond Keller – professor of political science; Africanist
• Harold Kelley – professor of psychology; social psychologist
• Mark Kleiman – professor of public policy, expert on crime and drug policy
• Peter Kollock – associate professor of sociology, specialist in collaboration and online participation in virtual communities
• Peter Ladefoged – professor of linguistics, specialist in phonetics
• Deborah Nadoolman Landis — professor of costume design; Oscar-nominated costume designer of Coming to America; founding director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design
• David Kellogg Lewis – former assistant professor of philosophy
• Barbara Kruger – professor of new genres, recipient of the Leone D’Or award from the Venice Biennale
• Ole Ivar Lovaas – professor of psychology, specialist in applied behavior analysis therapy for autism
• Michael Mann – professor of sociology; author of The Sources of Social Power volumes I and II
• Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma – Zambian musicologist
• Julián Marías – philosopher, opponent of Francisco Franco, author of History of Philosophy
• Thom Mayne – professor of architecture, architect, co-founder of firm named Morphosis
• Susan McClary – musicologist; prominent in the new-musicology movement; MacArthur Fellow; works have been translated into over twelve languages; wrote Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
• Vasa Mihich – professor of design and media arts; artist and sculptor
• Richard Montague – late professor of philosophy
• Charles Moore – professor of architecture, author and architect, Beverly Hills Civic Center
• Richard Thacker Morris – chairman of the sociology department, author
• Donald Neuen – professor of choral studies; conductor; apprentice of Robert Shaw
• Calvin Normore – professor of philosophy
• Karen Orren – professor of political science; noted for her work in American political development
• Catherine Opie – professor of photography and recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship
• Terence Parsons – professor of philosophy
• John Perry – former professor of philosophy
• Lari Pittman – distinguished professor of painting
• Hans Reichenbach – late professor of philosophy
• Amy Richlin – professor in Department of Classics
• Teofilo Ruiz – European historian; specialist in medieval history
• Bertrand Russell – former professor of philosophy; taught as a guest lecturer for one year
• David Schaberg – Dean of Humanities
• Arnold Schoenberg – professor of music; composer
• Seana Shiffrin – professor of philosophy and law known for her work in legal and moral philosophy
• Josef von Sternberg – taught film aesthetics
• Shelley Taylor – professor of psychology; social psychologist
• Dominic Thomas – chair of the department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA
• Eugen Weber – historian; author of Peasants Into Frenchmen
• Luc E. Weber – Rector Emeritus of the University of Geneva
• Dixon Wecter – professor of English.
• Louis Jolyon West – professor of psychiatry; specialist in brainwashing
• Gerald Wilson – professor of ethnomusicology, jazz studies; jazz composer, arranger and musician
• Eugene Victor Wolfenstein – professor of political science; author of Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork
• Roy Bin Wong – professor of history; pioneer in modern Chinese economic history
• Medha Yodh – professor of classical Indian dance
• John Zaller – political scientist; author of The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
• Amy Zegart – professor of public policy and U.S. intelligence analyst; author of Spying Blind

  Athletics

Athletic directors

• Fred Cozens – Director of Physical Education and Athletics, first basketball and football head coach
• Dan Guerrero, B.A. 1974 – athletic director
• Wilbur Johns, 1925 – athletic director, men's basketball head coach, basketball player
• J. D. Morgan – athletic director, head tennis coach, tennis player

  Basketball coaches

• Steve Alford – men's basketball head coach
• Frank Arnold – men's basketball assistant coach
• Gene Bartow – men's basketball head coach
• Larry Brown – men's basketball head coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
• Tasha Butts – women's basketball assistant coach
• Nikki Caldwell – women's basketball head coach
• Denny Crum, 1958 – men's basketball assistant coach, player, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
• Gary Cunningham – men's basketball head coach, basketball player
• Donny Daniels – men's basketball assistant coach
• Larry Farmer – men's basketball head coach, basketball player
• Mark Gottfried – men's basketball assistant coach
• Jim Harrick – men's basketball head coach
• Walt Hazzard – men's basketball head coach, basketball player, NBA and Olympic player
• Jack Hirsch – men's basketball assistant coach, player
• Brad Holland, B.A. 1979 – men's basketball assistant coach, player
• Michael Holton – men's basketball assistant coach, player
• Ben Howland – men's basketball head coach ; 2006 Pac-10 Coach of the Year
• Chad Kammerer – men's basketball assistant coach
• Kerry Keating – men's basketball assistant coach
• Steve Lavin – men's basketball head coach
• Gerald Madkins – men's basketball assistant coach, player
• Philip Mathews – men's basketball assistant coach
• Billie Moore – women's basketball head coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
• Kevin O'Connor – men's basketball assistant coach
• Lorenzo Romar – men's basketball assistant coach
• Jim Saia – men's basketball assistant coach
• Kenny Washington – first women's basketball head coach, basketball player
• Greg White – men's basketball assistant coach
• Sidney Wicks – men's basketball assistant coach, player
• John Wooden – men's basketball head coach, won 10 NCAA championships, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach
• Caddy Works – men's basketball head coach
• Ernie Zeigler – men's basketball assistant coach

  Football coaches

• Sal Alosi – strength and conditioning coordinator
• Dino Babers – assistant head coach
• William F. Barnes – head football coach
• Eric Bieniemy – running backs coach
• Gary Blackney – assistant coach
• Sam Boghosian – assistant coach, player
• James J. Cline – head football coach
• George W. Dickerson – interim head football coach
• Terry Donahue – head football coach, football player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Karl Dorrell – head football coach, football player
• Edwin C. Horrell – head football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Mike Johnson – interim head coach
• Ed Kezirian – interim head football coach, football player
• Adrian Klemm – run game coordinator and offensive line coach
• Bert LaBrucherie, 1929 – head football coach, football player
• Demetrice Martin – defensive backs coach
• Noel Mazzone – offensive coordinator
• Jim L. Mora – head football coach
• Rick Neuheisel, B.A. 1984 – head football coach, football player
• Kennedy Polamalu – running backs coach
• Tommy Prothro – head football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Pepper Rodgers – head football coach
• Henry Russell Sanders – head football coach
• Lou Spanos – defensive coordinator
• William H. Spaulding – head football coach
• Bob Toledo – head football coach
• Harry Trotter – head football coach, track coach
• Jeff Ulbrich – assistant head coach
• Dick Vermeil – head football coach
• DeWayne Walker – interim head football coach
• Eric Yarber – wide receivers coach

  Miscellaneous coaches

• Elvin C. Drake – head sports trainer, 1942–1972; head track and field coach, 1947–1964, winning the NCAA championship in 1956; coached decathletes Rafer Johnson and Yang Chuan-kwang during the 1960 Summer Olympics, in which they won the gold and silver medals
• Adam Krikorian – men's and women's water polo coach, won nine NCAA championships; assistant coach, won one NCAA championship; UCLA water polo player, won 1995 NCAA championship
• Al Scates – men's volleyball coach, won 19 NCAA championships
• John Smith – track and field coach, inventor of the drive phase and world record holder at event